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Weekly Pacing Guides

One page for every week of the year, Grades 3, 4, and 5. Each guide shows Monday through Friday at a glance, with every lesson, passage, workbook page, and resource one click away.

PURPOSE

A one page map of each week, so a teacher sees the whole week at a glance and never has to hunt for the next resource.

WHAT IS ON EACH PAGE

The GRADUATE Lesson for each day, the reading passage, the Student Workbook pages, the four Triplets for the Standards Block, Writing Workouts and stations (optional), Check the Learning (per district requirements), and the Home Connection.

HOW TO USE THIS PAGE

Choose your grade, then open a week to print it or click straight to each resource. Or download all 36 weeks for your grade in one file.

Grade 3 Weekly Pacing Guides

Every Grade 3 weekly pacing guide in one file, Prepare through Cluster 8.

PREPARE, Module 1: One Topic, Different Writing Jobs

PREPARE, Module 2: Match the Writing Job to the Genre

PREPARE, Module 3: Plan the Path Before the Draft

PREPARE, Module 4: Choose, Justify, Draft, Revise, and Share

Cluster 1, Module 1: Shaping the Prompt

Cluster 1, Module 2: Writing a Thesis (Central Idea)

Cluster 1, Module 3: Understanding and Selecting Strong Evidence

Cluster 1, Module 4: Explaining Evidence and Building the Full SCR Ladder

Cluster 2, Module 1: TREES and Shaping the Prompt

Cluster 2, Module 2: Writing the Thesis (Central Idea) (The Trunk of the Tree)

Cluster 2, Module 3: Reason/Way (The First Branch of the Tree)

Cluster 2, Module 4: Evidence (The Second Branch of the Tree)

Cluster 3, Module 1: Prompt Analysis & Thesis (Central Idea) Writing

Cluster 3, Module 2: Advance Prompt Analysis

Cluster 3, Module 3: Magnifying Reasons for WHY Prompts

Cluster 3, Module 4: Matching Reasons, Evidence, and Explanations

Cluster 4, Module 1: Significant Inferencing Sentences Using MICE

Cluster 4, Module 2: Significance Sentences for HOW Prompts Using MICE

Cluster 4, Module 3: Getting SET with the Statement of Purpose

Cluster 4, Module 4: The Yellow Sentence (Evidentiary Transition)

Cluster 5, Module 1: Paired Passage Responses: Connecting Two Texts

Cluster 5, Module 2: Paired Passage HOW Prompts: Similarities and Differences

Cluster 5, Module 3: Conclusion Paragraph with R1, R2, R3: The Bluebird Moment

Cluster 5, Module 4: Color-Coding the Full ECR Paper

Cluster 6, Module 1: Writing Claims for Argumentative Prompts

Cluster 6, Module 2: Supporting Claims with Reasons Through the Magnifying Process

Cluster 6, Module 3: Completing the Argumentative Paper with CREATURES

Cluster 6, Module 4: Argumentative Correspondence: The Persuasive Letter

Cluster 7, Module 1: Entering the Experience: Reading Poems That Inspire

Cluster 7, Module 2: Whose Voice? Emotion, Experience, and the Speaker

Cluster 7, Module 3: The Moment That Stays: Artistic Language and Sound

Cluster 7, Module 4: Meaning and Significance: Bringing All of LEAVES Together

Cluster 8, Module 1: PLACE: From Resource to Evidence

Cluster 8, Module 2: PROBLEM: From Question to Solution

Cluster 8, Module 3: PEOPLE: Choices, Service, and Memory

Cluster 8, Module 4: TRANSFER: One Paper, One Proof, One Community

Grade 4 Weekly Pacing Guides

Every Grade 4 weekly pacing guide in one file, Prepare through Cluster 8.

PREPARE, Module 1: The Writer's Job Comes First: Choosing a Response Genre

PREPARE, Module 2: The Same Idea, Many Jobs: Purpose and Audience Change the Writing

PREPARE, Module 3: Choose the Route and the Planning Strategy

PREPARE, Module 4: Independent Genre Decision and Transfer

Cluster 1, Module 1: Level Up Your Thinking

Cluster 1, Module 2: Build a Strong Thesis (central idea)

Cluster 1, Module 3: Prove It with Strong Evidence

Cluster 1, Module 4: Make the Evidence Mean Something

Cluster 2, Module 1: Growing the Tree

Cluster 2, Module 2: Writing Thesis (central idea) Statements

Cluster 2, Module 3: Organizing Reasons and Ways

Cluster 2, Module 4: Choosing Evidence

Cluster 3, Module 1: Your First Full TREES Response

Cluster 3, Module 2: Recognizing Relational Prompt Types

Cluster 3, Module 3: Magnifying Many Ideas into Three Strong Reasons

Cluster 3, Module 4: Matching Reasons, Evidence, and Explanation with CSI

Cluster 4, Module 1: CREATURES Foundation

Cluster 4, Module 2: From Facts to a Coherent Case

Cluster 4, Module 3: Understanding Others and Rebuttal

Cluster 4, Module 4: Ending, Significance, and the Full CREATURES ECR

Cluster 5, Module 1: Building the Evidence Bridge

Cluster 5, Module 2: HOW Ideas Connect and Differ

Cluster 5, Module 3: The RRR Conclusion Paragraph

Cluster 5, Module 4: Seeing the Structure Through Color

Cluster 6, Module 1: If You Have to Decide, Declare the Why

Cluster 6, Module 2: Magnify One Claim into Three Strong Reasons

Cluster 6, Module 3: Finishing the Argumentative Paper with CREATURES

Cluster 6, Module 4: Beginning and Ending an Argumentative Letter

Cluster 7, Module 1: Paths Connect People

Cluster 7, Module 2: People Carry More Than Things

Cluster 7, Module 3: Connections Create Change

Cluster 7, Module 4: What Will We Carry Forward?

Cluster 8, Module 1: PLACE: Where Does Change Begin?

Cluster 8, Module 2: IDEAS AND CHOICES: How Do People Turn Possibility Into Change?

Cluster 8, Module 3: LEGACY AND EVIDENCE: What Lasts, and How Do We Know?

Cluster 8, Module 4: SYNTHESIS: What Shapes Our World?

Grade 5 Weekly Pacing Guides

Every Grade 5 weekly pacing guide in one file, Prepare through Cluster 8.

PREPARE, Module 1: The Writing Job Comes Before the Format

PREPARE, Module 2: Purpose and Audience Change the Response

PREPARE, Module 3: Choose the Route and the Planning Strategy

PREPARE, Module 4: Independent Genre Decision and Transfer

Cluster 1, Module 1: Understanding and Upgrading Thinking Levels in WHY and HOW Responses

Cluster 1, Module 2: Writing a Strong Thesis (central idea) Using TOPIC, CHARGE, and ANSWER

Cluster 1, Module 3: Using Evidence to Support Thinking

Cluster 1, Module 4: Writing the Explanation Sentence

Cluster 2, Module 1: Understanding the Structure of an ECR

Cluster 2, Module 2: Writing a Strong Thesis (central idea)

Cluster 2, Module 3: The Reason/Way Branch of the ECR

Cluster 2, Module 4: The Evidence Branch of the ECR Tree

Cluster 3, Module 1: Building the Full ECR

Cluster 3, Module 2: Hidden WHY and HOW Prompt Clues

Cluster 3, Module 3: Magnifying WHY Reasons into Topic Sentences

Cluster 3, Module 4: Proving Reasons with Evidence and Explanation

Cluster 4, Module 1: Building the Argumentative Foundation with Claim, Reasons, and Evidence

Cluster 4, Module 2: Turning Parts into a Coherent Line of Argument with Thinking

Cluster 4, Module 3: Understanding Others and Building an Evidence-Based Rebuttal

Cluster 4, Module 4: Completing the Argument with Ending, Significance, and the Full CREATURES

Cluster 5, Module 1: Balanced Evidence Across Paired Passages

Cluster 5, Module 2: HOW Responses: Similarities, Differences, and Relationships

Cluster 5, Module 3: Building a Conclusion That Finishes the Thinking

Cluster 5, Module 4: Color Coding the Exemplar and Controlling the Whole Paper

Cluster 6, Module 1: Decision Prompts: Claim, Reasons, and Evidence

Cluster 6, Module 2: Coherent Argument and Thinking

Cluster 6, Module 3: Understanding, Rebuttal, Ending, and Significance

Cluster 6, Module 4: Full CREATURES in Argumentative Correspondence for a Real Audience

Cluster 7, Module 1: Notice, Question, Speak

Cluster 7, Module 2: Voices and Responses

Cluster 7, Module 3: Evidence Can Change the Story

Cluster 7, Module 4: Informed Voices Create Responsible Change

Cluster 8, Module 1: Challenge and Question

Cluster 8, Module 2: Evidence and Choice

Cluster 8, Module 3: Action, Consequence, and Revision

Cluster 8, Module 4: Synthesis and Publication